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New laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), and the proposed ePrivacy Regulation, will have a significant impact on online tracking. At the same time online technologies themselves are undergoing significant changes in respond to the deprecation of third-party cookies and platform providers requiring consumer consent.
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How a New York chef fell in love with Nashville then landed her dream job here
Barcelona's new executive chef Margaret LaVetty was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, but a visit to Nashville captured her heart.
How a New York chef fell in love with Nashville then landed her dream job here Barcelona's new executive chef Margaret LaVetty was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, but a visit to Nashville captured her heart. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/food/2018/07/23/how-new-york-chef-fell-love-nashville-landed-her-dream-job/801941002/
Melonee Hurt, Special to Nashville Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK – TENNESSEE Published 11:00 a.m. CT July 23, 2018
Margaret LaVetty, executive chef at Barcelona Wine Bar(Photo: Submitted)
Behind the Plate
Margaret LaVetty
1200 Villa Place, Nashville
www.barcelonawinebar.com
Barcelona'a new executive chef Margaret LaVetty was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, but she knew she was going to fit in in Nashville when she mastered the use of the one word that doesn't exist in her hometown: "y'all."
LaVetty has cooked her way across just about every corner of the U.S. She graduated from San Francisco's Culinary Academy and has worked in kitchens in Los Angeles, Miami Beach, New York and Leiper's Fork.
After coming to Nashville to visit, LaVetty loved it so much here, she decided to stay. After helping Dylan Morrison at 1892 in Leiper's Fork, she got on Craigslist and answered an ad that landed her the executive chef job at Barcelona, a post she's held for about four months. We chatted with her about her love of cooking and her newfound love of Nashville.
You've been a lot of places throughout your career. How did you get started?
I've been a chef my entire life. I went to culinary school in San Francisco and since then have been able to work with some phenomenal chefs. I learned so many different types of cuisines and techniques over the years. Now, I feel like I can say this job is it. I love this new job so much.
How did your career travels bring you to Nashville?
I was the executive chef in New York City with Blackwood Hospitality Group and Gentilly restaurant, which was a Southern Creole restaurant. We helped develop menus for new restaurants and helped restaurants open, or fix problems. The owners decided to close the restaurant, so I thought I would go out on my own and do some consulting. I decided to take a few months off and came to Nashville to visit my sister and my mom, who had moved here. I took a few months off, came here and never left.
What did you do with your time when you first decided to stay here?
I have a side business making granola, so I would work the farmer's markets here. I went to the Leiper's Fork market and loved it so much, I bought a house out there. While making the granola, I met Dylan Morrison, who was getting ready to open 1892. I helped him open that restaurant and once I got back into the kitchen, I realized I had to go back to work to be my real self. I needed to be in the kitchen. Life doesn't work for me unless I am cooking high volumes in a restaurant.
How did you connect with Barcelona?
To tell you the truth, I found the job opening on Craigslist. When you speak to Drew (McConnell, the general manager at Barcelona), he tells people he searched for me. We always laugh about it. Many people applied for the job and didn't get it because he was looking for a certain type of personality. This is my kitchen. I know that this job is where I am supposed to be in my life.
Why does it feel so right?
What I truly was looking for was a challenge. Throughout my career, I was always searching for a challenge. But you go to a new restaurant and then after two months, you have it down and it's not a challenge anymore. But this is different. Here, I have had to learn basically a whole other language. It's a different kind of Spanish. I was totally unfamiliar with the lingo, the verbiage, the products and ways. I got so excited that this would be a growing experience for me both personally and professionally.
How have you been able to make your mark on the menu at Barcelona?
We have our core items we do in all the Barcelonas. But it's less than 50 percent of the menu. The rest is chef inspired. I've been able to incorporate the local farmers I've met here and put in some twists using ingredients that Nashville can relate to.
What's your take on how food should be prepared?
My focus has been to amplify the ingredients rather than the application or the preparation. That's what makes a chef great. You learn that it's not about you. Being creative isn't about how tall you can stack the salad. Sometimes it's the grouper was swimming three hours ago and the less you do to it the better. All it needs is citrus and anything else will just take away from it.
What's your favorite ingredient or spice to cook with?
I really love coriander a lot. I like that Moroccan spice profile, so I tend to go in that direction. I also love allspice, mint and dill.
What's your favorite thing on your menu?
We have a chef's box that we will keep on the menu for a week or two and it's thematic. Right now, I have a bread and burrata I am excited about.
What makes Barcelona's menu stand out from other Nashville restaurants?
Because we are tapas and small plates, you get to try so many things when you come here. You can get five or six things and not have overeaten or broken the bank. We change the menu every day and although the core items are always there, we change at least two or three things every day. Some people might argue that I change the menu too much. But I just get excited.
So, you think Nashville is your permanent home?
When I was living in New York, I didn't realize my life was so hard. It's so cutthroat, so expensive and it's freezing cold in the winter. When my kids moved out on their own, I thought I'd move back to New York. But once I saw the lifestyle here and the quality of life, I honestly didn't realize I was struggling at all or that it wasn't normal until I came here. This is just a whole different thing. Once I was able to say y'all then I was good.
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This summer, once again I ventured into raising my own meat… in the form of chickens. Pastured chicken is above and beyond tastier than anything you could buy at the supermarket. The Meat King is the bird commonly raised for eating, and when you see how fast they pack on the pounds, you know why.
The small chicks grew quickly and they were loose in the garden much of the day, foraging for bugs, eating clover, grass and turnip greens. I kept them much longer than most people do, though it isn't terribly practical or economical to do so. However, mine were slower growing as I didn't leave the food out for them 24/7, which was also the reason they were good at foraging. A chicken eating greens and bugs must taste better then one who only eats dried grain, it stands to reason. I also fed them cooked rice and porridge mixed with the grain, and fruits, and sprouted mung beans.
They were majestic, and some of them actually friendly. Especially one hen. She would come up to me and tug my sleeve or pants leg and look up at me…expecting a treat. I called her Patricia, and when it came time to say good-bye to the others, I decided to keep her, at least for a while. And I also kept a rooster who was a bit of an individual as well. They grew, and then I saw the "King" part of their name, as they were majestic as adults. Few people would ever get to see a full-grown Meat King, and they are a beautiful bird, like living sculpture, so white and stark, with the scarlet comb and wattles. In September, Patricia started to lay eggs, at age of four months, which is way early for a regular bird. I've never heard of anyone keeping a Meat King long enough to find out when they would lay.
I discovered these birds are not meant to live a long normal life. The rooster, Whipper Billy Watson, injured Patricia while mating with her, his spurs sliced her back open. It was like dinosaurs mating, but more dangerous. I had to keep them separate. In the past couple of months, Whipper Billy is too large now to even make the maneouvers, though he flirts with anyone within range.
She also formed a close friendship with my oldest surviving hen, Esmeralda, who has outlived every other chicken, and is around 9 years old. The two became inseparable. Until last night. Patricia died in the night. I think it was of a heart attack (I did an autopsy). She was only six months old. My darling Patricia, she wormed her way into my heart and put a stamp on daily life on the farm here, that won't easily be forgotten. Her waddling ways, and gentle looks will be much missed by me and all visitors to Turtle Hill. But we still have Whipper Billy to cheer us up.


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Here's the latest press release and assets for Injustice: Gods Among Us, scheduled for release on April 16th in the US and April 19th in Europe.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today revealed details for the Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition. The package will be available in limited quantities at Gamestop and EB Games stores located in the United States and Canada for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition is also confirmed to be available in North America beginning April 16 for Xbox 360, PS3 and the Wii U™ system from Nintendo.
The Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition will retail for $149.99 and includes the game disc, exclusive Injustice: Gods Among Us Fight Stick featuring official artwork from the game and three exclusive skins based on Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman from DC COMICS – THE NEW 52. The Fight Stick is a light weight controller that boasts a non-skid foam underside, a lockout feature for the Start, Select and Guide buttons, as well as adjustable illumination for the buttons and joystick.
Accompanying the news is an image featuring all the contents of the Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition, as well as a new image showcasing the contents of the Injustice: Gods Among Us Collector's Edition, which will be sold separately for $99.99 at various retailers throughout North America for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Australia based Nepalese model Prativa Maharjan would grace 'Speak to Me' by Rojin Shakya
Model Prativa Maharjan featuring on 'Speak to Me' a talk show by fashion choreographer Rojin Shakya via social media Facebook on Friday, 21st August 2020.
Prativa Maharjan is an established Nepalese model based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Prativa was noted in the spotlight back in 2013 in the 8th season of the ethnic beauty pageant dedicated to the Newar community 'Miss Newa'. She completed the competition as the second runner-up for Miss Newa 2013, organized by Nepalese Fashion Home in Kathmandu.
The event was been showcased at Nepal Academy Hall on January 19, 2013. Before landing in Australia, the lady from Lalitpur, Nepal, Prativa did gain experience in multiple numbers of fashion shows in Kathmandu. Prativa was also one of the regional finalists of Miss Multiverse Australia 2018.
She has been doing commercial modeling both including runway shows and commercial photo shoots in Australia. Ravishing Fashionista, JK Couture Bridal Fashion Show, Miss Earth Fashion show are some of the major runway shows, Prativa has walked through. She has also appeared in multiple short movies and music videos in Australia. The lady has also been awarded as best female model music video diaspora songs.
5 feet 8 inches tall figured Prativa is also been nominated in the category of Best Fashion Model (Nepal) for IFM, Indian fashion & Media Awards. IFM Awards is being organized by Global Fashion Network, GFN and award date is finalized on 10th October 2020 at Sydney, Australia.
The 28th edition of Speak to me would go live on 21st August Friday at 5 pm Nepal Time (9.15 pm Brisbane, Australia time) on the Facebook page of Rojin Shakya and would be covered by glamournepal.com, the promotional partner for the talk show.
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The Tale of a Very Moral Country
by Sonja DeWitt | 26 October 2018 |
This is a story of a country—a deeply religious and very moral country. Perhaps the most moral country that ever existed. A country where hundreds of laws were developed to prevent its citizens from the least appearance of sin. The religious leaders paid tithe on their tiniest coins. They said long prayers and fasted two days a week. They were scrupulous about charity and good deeds. They believed that if they multiplied moral laws and they obeyed God perfectly enough, God would "forgive their sins, and heal their land."
There were two primary social and political parties in that country. One was the recognized moral authority—conservative fundamentalists—and made it their mission to ensure that the people of the country were constantly focused on obedience to the law. They enforced 613 moral laws, and hundreds of supporting regulations. There were 39 laws related to the keeping of the holy day, alone.
The other party was comprised of the socially elite, the rich and the politically powerful. They controlled the economic wealth of the country. Among this party's prominent members were the country's religious leaders. This included the all-powerful national religious leader, the man all the people were forced to turn to for forgiveness of sins and salvation.
This party was known for its conservatism. Its members were closely allied with the government and were zealous in maintaining this relationship. They understood well that their political and economic power that depended on it. They lived in extravagant luxury unimaginable to the common people.
These two parties were constantly at war, and agreed on virtually nothing. They had different views on the law, on purity, on life and death. They were poles apart socially and economically, and in their world view.
But the two parties did agree on some things.
Both parties despised other races and cultures as inferior. They would not eat with people who were not of their race and their faith. They considered them "unclean" and went out of their way to avoid even speaking to such people.
Both parties had deep contempt for women, and regarding them as somewhere slightly above the rank of slaves. Many did not believe women should be educated, even about the Bible, and women were prohibited from worshipping with men. Women were considered lascivious temptresses, whom men would be wise to avoid except for the purposes of procreation. They were considered unfit to have any life outside the home. Both parties emphatically agreed that men were to rule over women in all circumstances.
Both parties agreed that "sinners" who did not participate in their meticulous piety should be shunned, condemned and excluded from community social and religious life.
Both parties believed that wealth was a sign of God's blessing and approval, and both enacted and supported laws favoring the rich over the poor. They joined in promoting a social and religious system which allowed the religious leaders to make spectacular profits from the worship of the poor.
The pious party overturned the religious law which required periodic equalization of wealth, and ruled that a gift to the clergy overrode a man's moral obligation to care for his parents. The wealthy party profited immensely from these religious services, selling the necessities of worship at inflated prices and changing money at exorbitant rates.
And they both emphatically agreed on their hatred and fear of a poor itinerant leader, loved by the common people, who taught dangerous social and religious heresies. They knew he must be stopped before his radical teachings completely undermined religious, social and economic system which supported all of them—before his evil, apostate teachings called down upon them the judgment of God.
He talked to, associated with, even healed, ungodly foreigners and racial inferiors.
He healed a servant belonging to one of their despised foreign enemies. He lauded the bravery and compassion of a member of a hated foreign race, and ridiculed the cowardice and callousness of his country's religious leaders.
He allowed women to follow him, and support his mission. He even allowed a known prostitute to touch his feet with her unbound hair in public, and rescued an adulterous woman from the righteous punishment prescribed by the law! He allowed women, even foreign women, to listen to his teachings, and even debate with him!
He undermined their religious laws by his subversive example of healing, traveling, even threshing wheat on the holy day, when any work was strictly forbidden.
He touched those who were sick, afflicted and unclean, violating the strictest public health prohibitions.
He attracted a huge following among the people which undermined popular support for the required religious rituals.
He supported the rights of the poor against the rich, and had the unmitigated gall to suggest that a generous poor woman could be more righteous than a wealthy ruler.
And, most damning of all, he openly spoke against the system of religious rituals which supported them economically and politically. He dared to compare them to thieves when they were merely reaping the inevitable rewards gained by their superior intellect and social standing, political power, and the blessing of God!
And so, to protect their morality—and, incidentally, their political power and their ecclesiastical wealth—they killed the Son of God.
And then went home. To keep the Sabbath.
Sonja DeWitt, Esq. is an attorney specializing in discrimination law. She has handled Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) cases, both for private sector companies and federal agencies, for over 20 years. She is passionate about religious liberty, and was involved in the North American Religious Liberty Association's political advocacy efforts for several years. During this period, she received the A.T. Jones Award from NARLA for her advocacy work. She has also been published in Liberty Magazine and ReligiousLiberty.TV.
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Seif Al-Quds, a decisive battle in history of conflict: Hamas official
By Al Mayadeen Net
Source: Al Mayadeen
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Zaher Jabarin, asserts that Hamas has a unified strategic decision, stressing the existence of a consensus in the movement on the relationship with Iran.
Hamas political bureau member Zaher Jabarin
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Zaher Jabarin, told Al Mayadeen that the battle of Saif Al-Quds was the decisive battle in the history of the conflict that has been going on for seven decades," noting that the appearance of Hamas leader Yahya Al-Sinwar in the Gaza Strip after the battle "painted the clear picture of a strategic victory."
Jabarin stressed that "Hamas has a unified and firm strategic decision, and a consensus on the relationship with Iran," adding that the operations aiming to capture Israeli soldiers have a strategic value, stressing that there is a "day and night" effort to accomplish an exchange deal for Palestinian prisoner.
Concerning Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Jabarin said that Hamas sent messages that it will not allow the battle of female prisoners to remain within the "Zionist walls."
He pointed out that "the occupation eludes the exchange deal," adding that it is trying to use time in its favor, asserting that this tactic will fail in breaking Hamas's 'will and resistance.'" He said that just like the "Wafaa Al-Ahrar" deal [referring to the previous deal] was completed, a new deal will be achieved.
About the Palestinian elections, Jabarin explained that his movement "is ready for elections," and if Fatah wins, Hamas will recognize and accept the results and refrain from doing what Fatah did when Hamas won, referring to the legislative elections that took place in 2006.
Jabarin concluded, "We have a road map, and we are ready to return to any conciliatory path on national bases," if it is free from "American or Israeli condition."
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Q: How to multiply two polynomials in $GF(3)[x]_{x^2+1}$? We have the field $GF(3)[x]_{x^2+1}$ and want to multiply the two polynomials $2x+1$ and $2x+2$.
I understand that $GF(3)[x]_{x^2+1} := \{0,1,2,x,2x,x+1,x+2,2x+1,2x+2\}$. I'm not sure what the best method for multiplying polynomials is (without the table).
I first proceed like so:
$(2x+1) * (2x+2) = 4x^2+4x+2x+2 = x^2+2$
Now the polynomial can't have a degree bigger than 1 in our field, so I'd have to devide the result I'm getting by $x^2+1$.
$x^2+2 = (x^2+1) + 1$ so we have a remainder of $1$. Is the final result $= 1$? or am I doing the computation wrong from the get go?
In general, the result has to be an element of our field. So do you just take the remainder as the final result?
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Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia termites foreign principal of all private schools
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Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia termites expat principal of all private schools
The Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia has issued a circular instructing the management of all private and international schools to dismiss the emigrant principals and headmasters with an immediate effect.
It further said that the decision would be implemented from 11th August, 2020 (21st Dhul Hajjah 1441 AH), and said that the decision would be performed on all levels of schools, including primary, middle, high standards.
The Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Abdul Rahman bin Muhammad Al-Asmi has written a letter to all educational institutes across Saudi Arabia to implement the decision with an immediate effect.
MOE letter Aug 2020
In this regard, it has also been instructed to replace all expatriate principals and HMS of international and private schools with Saudis only. From now on, only Saudis would be eligible to work as the principal of a global and private school in the Kingdom.
Moreover, the school management has been asked to inform the owners of the school about the new decision.
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(2) In every year in which no triennial election to the council of a county or other borough is held a quarterly meeting of such council shall be held at such hour on such day not earlier than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July as such council shall fix at the last previous quarterly meeting and a quarterly meeting of such council shall also be held at such hour on such other three days before the next following 23rd day of June as such council shall fix at such first mentioned quarterly meeting.
(3) The first business (after the determination of the question which of the members are to be aldermen if and when that question arises) at the quarterly meeting of the council of a county or other borough held next after the 22nd day of June in any year shall be the election of the mayor, and every such mayor shall come into office as soon after his election as he has made the declaration accepting office and shall continue in office until his successor has been elected and made the declaration accepting office.


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Florence + the Machine at SB Bowl 2015
Florence + the Machine came back to the Santa Barbara Bowl again this year and played to a sold out house. This was easily in the top few performances of the year, and Florence Welch was truly humbled by the warm welcome she got. You can't fake the sincerity I saw in her eyes and smile when she thanked the cheering crowd for coming to see her.
Although I was stuck in the same spot on the side of the photo pit for the entire three songs I shot, Florence is so dynamic, jumping around stage and never sitting still, that I had plenty of opportunities to capture all different lights and angles of her performing. In fact, I had a hard time narrowing it down to the 40 images from this show posted on sbbowl.com/photos. My favorite photos of her were horizontal, but those aren't optimum for this news page, so be sure to check them out in the Bowl's gallery.
I was glad that this year, she had no restrictive contract to sign. Opening the show was Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, featuring John Lennon' son, Sean Lennon.
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Robert Plant at SB Bowl 2015
Robert Plant returned to the Santa Barbara Bowl with his most recent backup band, The Sensational Space Shifters. This is the same band he toured with a couple years ago, and they are superb, nailing the classic Led Zeppelin tunes to a tee. Last time they were here, I was able to shoot from the ADA section, but this time, I was stuck at the soundboard. I did get three full songs and was able to get some decent images. The lighting wasn't fantastic, as far as photography goes, but I still got some good stuff. I had to convert some of them to black & white to bring back detail that was lost by single-color floods, like the bright reds they used.
J.D. McPherson opnened the show, and I got to shoot them from in the photo pit.
Check out the full gallery at sbbowl.com/photos.
Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon Jones at SB Bowl
Featuring Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, TTB rocked down the house with very special guests, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. The two performances were genuinely great and included an opening set by Doyal Bramhall III. During an encore, all three bands took the stage. I was allowed to shoot the first three songs from all three acts, plus the encore, all in the photo pit. The lighting was generally excellent, except that Ms. Jones could have been better lit while they were all on stage together. I did get some great shots, and you can see them on sbbowl.com/photos.
I had an opportunity to shoot TTB late last year at the Arlignton Theatre, so I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. Both were great shows with good photo opportunities. I've also shot Mr. Bramhall before, when he performed at the Experience Hendrix tribute tour; that show was also at the Arlington, back in 2010.
Aerosmith at SB Bowl
Legend rock 'n rollers, Aerosmith graced the Santa Barbara Bowl with a smashing performance. I wish I could have shot the drum solo and encore as they were quite a spectacle.
I did get to shoot three songs, though, from behind the ADA section. I had to choose one side, and I picked stage right (house left). I shot most of the show with my 400/f4, but it wasn't easy. The crowd in front of me were dancing and waving their arms in the air, blocking many of my best shooting opportunities. Otherwise, I did get some great shots, but they are restricted form personal use, so you'll need to visit sbbowl.com/photos to see the gallery.
Living Colour opened the show, and they, too, rocked the house.
David Gray & Amos Lee at SB Bowl
Double-header singer-songwriters, David Gray and Amos Lee performed at the Santa Barbara Bowl. During their tour, they took turns headlining, and at the Bowl, Amos went first. An early starting July show, Mr. Lee was in direct sunlight, which worked well against the charcoal black background of the stage. I got to shoot the first three songs of each from an uncrowded photo pit, but right after Lee's performance, I snuck in a backstage shot of him hanging out with some of the users. Mr. Gray began on the piano, then grabbed the mic stand walked out to the edge of the stage with it, right in the middle of the second song.
Opening the show were three talented sisters called, Joseph (from Joseph, OR).
See the gallery at sbbowl.com/photos.
Aretha Franklin at SB Bowl
Aretha Franklin came back to the Santa Barbara Bowl to perform her hits and other "diva" standards. The performance sound was good, but from the point of view of a photographer, the lighting was challenging. I had to shoot from the soundboard and only got the first 60 seconds of each of the first three songs. Three minutes is not a whole lot of time to get everything figured out in those conditions. My images were not superb, to say the least, and I opted to print, for the Bowl, one of her walking out on stage.
The images are also restricted by contract, so you'll have to visit sbbowl.com/photos to see any of them.
Oddly enough, a comedian, Sarah Tiana, opened the show, and she was quite funny and also in great light.
Jackson Browne at SB Bowl 2015
Local artist, Jackson Browne returned to the Santa Barbara Bowl a couple days ago with his full band. Jackson regularly plays around Santa Barbara, always to benefit a local charity. Tonight's show benefitted Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, to help people with mental health conditions.
The show was classic Jackson, but the shooting conditions were about as bad as they get. I was restricted to only two short songs from the left floor wing (far left, stage right); from that vantage point, most of the band was obscured by one thing or another, and I had to wait for Jackson to turn his head pretty far to the right, in order to get a decent shot. To make matter worse, this was an August, 7pm show with no opening act. Translation: still too much daylight for concert lighting, but otherwise, flat, dim, shadow light on stage. The photos aren't very interesting from an artistic point of view.
Anyway, you can see the small gallery on sbbowl.com/photos.
Incubus at SB Bowl 2015
On the heels of a new album, Incubus put on another great concert of their own brand of indie, hard rock. As always, their light show was a significant part of their performance. This year, the lighting on the artists was a little dimmer and more challenging to photograph than in years past. I think this was my third time shooting them, and I had some good opportunities from the photo pit, but I was restricted to the sides only.
See the entire gallery on sbbowl.com/photos.
Ben Harper at SB Bowl 2015
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals returned to the Bowl for an anxious crowd. Gill Landry opened the show. The lighting was bright, brilliant and colorful, making for some great photography. I shot from the photo pit for the first three songs, acquiring plenty of great shots.
Checkout the full gallery on sbbowl.com/photos.
Mark Knopfler at SB Bowl
Mark Knopfler played to a sold out house at the Santa Barbara Bowl a couple days ago. His performance was as classic as his style of rock. There was only a small group of photographers, but we all shot from behind the ADA (handicap) section. There wasn't a lot of wiggle room, so all my images are from the same angle. Nonetheless, I think I was able to properly capture Mark's demeanor.
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Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player review: Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player
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The Good The Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player works with Slacker's excellent free music service, and it offers built-in Wi-Fi for grabbing new music on-the-go. It features a compact and sturdy design with a large, bright LCD that displays true full-screen album art.
The Bad The Slacker G2 does not offer extra features such as photo and video support, the controls are not completely intuitive, the volume buttons are not very responsive, sound quality is unexceptional, and battery life is unimpressive.
The Bottom Line The Slacker G2 is the ultimate lazy person's MP3 player. Paired with the excellent--and free--Slacker music service, it makes new music discovery and enjoyment a nearly effortless process, but control freaks and audiophiles need not apply.
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Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player
The first portable device to come out for the Slacker Web Player took nearly a year from beta to retail and fell a little flat with several consumers and industry experts, mainly because of its large and boxy design, an extraneous touch-strip control, and a satellite-hopping wireless function that never came to fruition. Fortunately, Slacker took its growing pains in stride and was quick to push out its follow-up device, the G2. The new portable flawlessly integrates Slacker's excellent free music service in an improved package with a super simple user interface. At $199 for the 4GB model and $249 for the 8GB, the G2 goes for a premium when compared with other MP3 players--especially considering the lack of extra features--but when you factor in the all-you-can-eat free-and-effortless (and legal) music aspect, it doesn't seem so pricey.
Hardware and design
Like with the first Slacker Portable Player, the G2's capacity doesn't function in the same way as your average MP3 player. The majority of the memory is set aside for stations, which are transferred from the Slacker service. The 4GB model accepts up to 25 different stations (with up to 2,500 songs), while the 8GB can take up to 40 (with up to 4,000 songs). However, you can also transfer MP3 or WMA files from your personal music library--up to 1GB for the 4GB player and up to 3GB for the 8GB. In true Slacker fashion, the device is only available in one color: black. We appreciate the solid feel, rubberized edges, and metal backplate complete with a raised Slacker logo.
Unlike the first Slacker device, the G2 is compact--measuring a pocketable 3.5 inches high, 2.2 inches wide, and 0.5 inch deep--and relies solely on a plentiful array of tactile controls. The ample 2.4-inch screen is flanked by play/pause and track shuttle keys on the bottom and Slacker's signature Heart and Ban buttons on the top (more on these shortly). A jog wheel on the right spine lets you navigate onscreen and through menus--pushing it in selects whatever is highlighted on the screen. For example, if the album art is highlighted, pressing in on the wheel will pull up an album review. A home button and hold switch also reside on the right edge, and a standard mini USB for charging and (minimal) syncing is housed on the left. Dedicated volume buttons--which lagged a bit during testing--and a standard headphone jack line the top of the G2, and a 30-pin connection for future accessories lives on the bottom. While we appreciate dedicated controls for everything, we found ourselves trying to use the jog wheel to adjust volume and pushing in vain at the small Slacker logo on the front as if it were a joystick for navigation. The setup isn't entirely intuitive, though once you get used to it, it's not too bad.
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Cat 3 Cat 3 or Category 3 - 100 ohm is twisted-pair copper cable that meets or exceeds specifications in ANSI / TIA / EIA-568-A, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard, and ISO/ IEC 11801, Generic Cabling for Customer Premises, for transmissions up to 16 MHz.
Cat 5 Cat 5 or Category 5 is a cabling standard for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) wiring. It offers speeds up to 100 MHz and a data transfer rate up to 100 Mbps. Cat 5, the most popular UTP wiring standard, is used in Ethernet networking of 10BaseT or 100BaseT.
Cat 6 Cat 6 or Category 6 - 100 ohm is twisted-pair cabling standard that is still under review. Work has started on the Cat 6 cabling specification; however, there is a great deal of debate about Cat 6 and high temperature environments.
Coaxial Coaxial cable consists of two cylindrical conductors with a common axis. The two conductors are separated by a dielectric. The outer conductor, normally at ground-potential, acts as a return path for current flowing through the center conductor and prevents energy radiation from the cable. The outer conductor or shield is used commonly to prevent external radiation from affecting the current flowing in the inner conductor. The outer shield or conductor consists of woven strands of wire or is a metal sheath.
Fiber Optic Fiber optic cabling provides extremely large bandwidths and near-perfect immunity to noise. Disadvantages include cost and difficulty of installation. Purchasing fiber optic cable, connectors, patch panels, jumper cables, tools, and network interface cards (NICs) costs significantly more than other cable types.
RG6 / RG11 RG6 and RG11 are inexpensive, unbalanced coaxial cables that have a quarter-inch diameter and a central metallic core that is surrounding by a layer of insulating material. The insulating material or dielectric can be solid or air-spaced. The entire assembly is covered with a metallic sleeve and protected by a cable jacket, an outer layer of non-conducting material. Typically, RG6 is used in cable television or satellite applications. RG11 is used as ThickNet, a thick Ethernet cabling that is capable of carrying data over longer distances than ThinNet.
Triaxial Triaxial cabling has three circular conductors: a conductor in the center, a conductor shield that is concentric with the first conductor, and a conductor shield that is insulated from and concentric with both the first and second conductors. Triaxial cabling is usually insulated. It includes a braid or impervious sheath.
Type 1 Type 1 cable is used in Token Ring networks.
Twisted Pair Twisted pair cable consists of wires that are twisted together in order to reduce radio frequency (RF) noise. Standard telephone wiring uses twisted pairs of insulated copper conductors to cancel the effects of electrical noise. Twisted pair, a popular and low-cost cable type, is also used in local area networks (LANs). Variants include shielded twisted pair (STP) and unshielded twisted pair (UTP).
Fibre Channel Fibre channel is a scalable, high-speed, serial data transfer interface standard (ANSI X3TII).
IEEE 1394 (FireWire®) IEEE 1394 or FireWire® is an interface standard adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for very fast digital data transfers such as streaming video. FireWire cables are used to transmit and receive data among FireWire devices, and are designed to replace external high-speed peripheral connections to personal computers, including hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, graphics cards, high-speed scanners, direct video, monitors, etc. FireWire is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
GPIB General purpose interface bus (GPIB) is designed to connect computers, peripherals and laboratory instruments so that data and control information can pass between them. Data can be transferred at 200,000 bps over distances of 2 m.
LAN / Ethernet Ethernet is a local area network (LAN) protocol developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. Ethernet uses a bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps. The Ethernet specification served as the basis for the IEEE 802.3 standard, which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Ethernet uses the CSMA/CD access method to handle simultaneous demands. It is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards.
Parallel Parallel devices simultaneously transmit multiple bits of data over separate lines. For example, some parallel devices transmit eight bits over eight lines. Parallel cables are often unidirectional.
Patch Patch cables are flexible and terminated at both ends with a plug. They are used to interconnect circuits on a patch panel.
SCSI Small computer system interface (SCSI) cables are used for high-speed bus connections between small computers and intelligent peripherals such as hard disks, printers, and optical disks. Common standards for SCSI cables include SCSI-1, Wide SCSI, Fast SCSI, Wide Fast SCSI, Ultra SCSI, Wide Ultra SCSI, SCSI-2, Ultra2 SCSI, Wide Ultra2 SCSI, SCSI-3, Ultra3 SCSI (Ultra160), Ultra320 SCSI, Ultra640 SCSI, Fibre Channel, and serial SCSI (FireWire®).
Serial Serial devices transmit data sequentially, one bit at a time, and on a single data channel.
USB Universal serial bus (USB) is a 4-wire, 12-Mbps serial bus for low-to-medium speed peripheral device connections to personal computers (PC), including keyboards, mice, modems, printers, joysticks, audio functions, monitor controls, etc.
Infiniband® Infiniband® is a bus architecture based upon channel-based I/O, an I/O model that is well-suited for mainframe computers. InfiniBand channels are created by attaching host channel adapters and target channel adapters through InfiniBand switches. Host channel adapters are I/O engines located within a server. Target channel adapters enable remote storage and network connectivity into the InfiniBand fabric. This interconnect infrastructure is called a "fabric" because of how input and output connections are constructed between host and targets. All InfiniBand connections are created with InfiniBand links that use both copper wire and fiber optics for transmission. InfiniBand is a registered trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Other Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary cable types.
Cable Fault Locator Devices include a trigger for a cable fault locator view or option.
Time Domain Reflectometer Devices include a trigger for a time domain reflectometer (TDR) view or option.


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What are the causes of heart attacks?
Heart attack is the leading cause of death in America, among both men and women, and the causes of heart attack are well documented. Taking steps to prevent a heart attack does not start once coronary trouble is detected, it needs to start before causes of heart attack become obvious. Simple change is the way people approach exercise and diet can be some of the best prevention methods.
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A new study looking at gender differences among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show that girls have different, less obvious symptoms compared to boys, which could be why they are generally diagnosed later.
Lipkin and his colleagues looked at data on people with ASD and their family members using the Institute's online registry of 50,000 people. Almost 10,000 of them had reported how old they were when they were first diagnosed, and about 5,000 had undergone a test to identify their severity of social impairment. The study author's results were presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Diego.
The researchers found that in general, girls were diagnosed with ASD later than boys. On average, girls were diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder—an autism spectrum disorder that impacts basic skill development—at age four, and boys were diagnosed with the same disorder at about 3.8 years. Girls were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome around age 7.6 years, while boys were diagnosed around 7.1 years. Interestingly, the researchers noticed that the symptoms reported among the children differed by gender, too. Girls tended to have more issues with the ability to read social cues, and boys had more mannerism-related issues like repetitive behaviors including hand flapping. When boys were older, around age 10-15, they had more social issues like trouble communicating in social settings than girls did.
The researchers say their findings suggest that the symptom differences may not only lead to delayed diagnosis in girls, but potentially missed diagnoses altogether. Understanding the various ways children with ASD present may lead to a better understanding of the disorders.


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The Sounds, The Thoughts
The sounds of memories
Last week I was lucky enough to see two gigs by artists I have loved and wanted to see live for a long time. I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard Shakey Graves—down to which song ('Dearly Departed') on which radio station (NPR) and even which street I was driving on when it came on the radio (Davisville Road in Southampton, PA). And Hozier is one of the few artists I can say I listened to before they got big, although that was only because I was living in Ireland and so 'Take Me To Church' was on everyone's playlists for months there before it ever hit North American airwaves.
It got me thinking about how strongly tied to memory sound can be. There are so many songs that make me think of a certain time or place, down to minuscule details about where I was or what I was doing when I listened to them. Often music conjures up memories of people or moments as well, whether it's a fond memory of childhood and your parent singing your favourite lullaby or a song that you can't listen to anymore because it reminds you too much of your ex. Sound is unavoidable. It can sneak up on you, a song coming unexpectedly on the radio or in the grocery store.
And it's not just songs. I listened to an episode of the marketing podcast Household Name recently that discussed the sound of brands. From NBC's "ding diiing ding" (I'm sure you can hear it in your head) to the Windows startup noise to MGM's lion's roar, sounds can instantly call up a recollection of a brand, often paired with a sense of nostalgia (for better or worse—I'm sure if I asked you to imagine a dial-up internet connection your memory would come in the form of a sound and you would hate it). But obviously music is the most enjoyable type of sound for most of us.
Music for me offers one of the most purest types of memory snapshots. I'm sure this depends on your exact nature, whether you're more visual or tactile or prefer some other sense or type of learning and thinking, but nothing can instantly snap me into some moment of the past the way music can. It's not always a complete memory—I don't remember when or why I was driving down Davisville Road and hearing 'Dearly Departed' for the first time, but I remember the DJ talking about how Shakey Graves had transitioned from acting to music and I remember stopping carefully at every stop sign because the cops were known to hang out around the blocks waiting for folks to roll through and I remember that the weather was sunny but crisp, cold, and windy which is kind of perfect for a song like that.
There are songs that bring me straight back to college, to high school, to summer, to my favourite bar. Songs that remind me of my partner or my sister or my best friend. Songs that immediately make me visualize a specific moment in a tv show or film, or the book I was reading when I listened to it. Songs that draw out every sort of emotion.
There isn't much of a point to this post, just a little love song to love songs (and other sounds) and how grateful I am to be able to enjoy them.
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Our next trip was a five day hike across the mountain passes from Paro valley to Thimpu valley. With a small army of ponies and porters we set out from above Paro valley hiking through rhododendron forests in the sunshine, along hill ridges and passing isolated monasteries. The campsites had toilet tents, carpets to sleep on, a dining tent and roast potatoes with dinner. Utter luxury. Not to mention being woken up by hot tea or coffee and warm water to wash your face.
On the third day we experienced an unusual turn of weather for the time of year. A light flurry of snow in the late afternoon soon became a heavy snowfall. The last sound before drifting off to sleep was the sounds of our porters brushing settling snow from the tops of all our tents. We woke to a winter wonderland. Blue skies, bright sunshine and over four inches of crunchy virginal snow. The ponies were huddled under the trees looking decidedly unimpressed along with a heard of yaks that had wondered onto the plateau the previous evening. We ate breakfast in the open air at our campaign table surrounded by white peaks and blue skies. Although beautiful the snow meant we had to head back down the valley. This was fine until we got below the snow line and then had a three hour slip and slide through thick mud before reaching the bottom!
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If the combination of bacon and chocolate impresses you as much as it impresses me, then you might want to consider a job with Chicago's Vosges - Haut Chocolat.
Posted by Willy Franzen on February 13, 2009. Jobs updated daily.
If your sweetheart is out of a job this Valentine's Day, then give him or her a gift that shows that you really care. Chocolates, flowers, and jewelry only bring temporary satisfaction, but there's nothing more satisfying (besides a relationship with you, of course) than a job that you love. Enroll your sweetheart in Found Your Career (our online job search training course) today.
Last year we did a weeklong build up to Valentine's Day – we checked out jobs at ProFlowers, OpenTable, eHarmony, and Tiffany & Co. One obvious choice that I left out was a confectioner or chocolatier. That's why today we're going to look at Vosges, a Chicago based producer of Haut-Chocolat. I had a lot of options when it came to picking a chocolatier to feature today, and I probably could have picked one that has more jobs available (your homework can be to go find one), but I picked Vosges for a single reason. They make a chocolate bar with bacon in it. I've had it, and it's awesome. How could you not want to work with a company that is creative enough to mix those two things together?
Have you ever asked someone out and been told, "Yes, when pigs fly?" If so, you might want to give that person one of Vosges' Flying Chocolate and Bacon Pigs. Ok, I sound like a walking advertisement for Vosges, but I am just wowed by their creativity. It's not just about chocolate though. Their mission is pretty ambitious – "to create a luxury chocolate experience rooted in a sensory journey of bringing about awareness to indigenous cultures through the exploration of spices, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, nuts, chocolate and the obscure." Or as their founder puts it, "Peace through chocolate." If you're as impressed by Vosges as I am, then you might want to consider a job with them. Their Jobs page is a little odd, because it starts by talking about the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi. They eventually get into the fact that they're "always looking for high-energy, dedicated team members to join our chocolate revolution." In other words, they seem more than open to cold calling. In addition to that they also have retail positions at their stores in Chicago, New York, and Las Vegas. But wait… I've saved the best for last. Vosges is also looking for a Vosges Chocolate Concierge (Multi-Channel/Customer Service Representative). This sounds like a really cool job, and the description even says that it's targeted towards current college students who are nearing graduation. The job description is pretty detailed, and you can't apply by e-mail, so check out the Vosges Jobs page for all of the info. Oh yeah, and if you land the job, you better send me some chocolate.
Have you ever had a Vosges Bacon Bar?


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Landrieu ad touts her Obamacare fix
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is tackling Obamacare in her first TV ad of the 2014 cycle--by touting her work to help Americans keep their cancelled plans.
Sen. Mary Landrieu arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 3, 2013.
Dec. 11, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 11, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC
By Jessica Taylor
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is tackling Obamacare head-on in her first television ad of the 2014 cycle -- by touting her work to help Americans keep their cancelled plans.
The 30-second ad begins with news clips of Americans losing their health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, despite President Obama's promise that "if you like your plan, you can keep it." The spot then details how she sponsored a bill to allow those people to keep their old plans, titled the "Keeping Affordable Care Act Promise."
"This is a promise that you made. This is a promise that you should keep," Landrieu says in one clip toward Obama, who eventually debuted a fix similar to the one Landrieu proposed.
"Thousands of Louisianians and millions of Americans that carried individual policies will now have an opportunity to keep those health care plans. The President made a promise, and Sen. Landrieu is working to make sure it is kept and will continue her legislative efforts to fix and improve the Affordable Care Act," Landrieu campaign manager Adam Sullivan said in a statement.
According to her campaign, the $250,000-buy will air in the Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Alexandria, Shreveport and Monroe markets.
Landrieu is running for re-election in a state where President Obama got just 40% in 2012, and is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election. She's facing GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy and Republican Rob Maness in the state's Election Day all-party contest. If no candidate tops 50%, the top-two candidates, regardless of party, will advance to a December runoff.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee was quick to criticize her ad, arguing that it masked her support of the health care law.
"Mary Landrieu's latest ad is the most disingenuous television ad of the year," said NRSC Press Secretary Brook Hougesen. "Not only did Landrieu support ObamaCare, but three years ago she supported the specific provision responsible for cancelling these policies. How can Louisianians trust anything Mary Landrieu says after she's repeatedly deceived them about ObamaCare for the last four years and continues to do so today? This ad is an insult to the intelligence of every voter in Louisiana."


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Water Warning
Noelle Fujii-Oride,
Most people are smart enough to stay out of the ocean when signs warn about bacteria in the water. The problem is we don't always get that warning, or get it quickly enough, because Hawaii has 303 miles of recreational shoreline and only six state inspectors testing for bacteria.
The good news is that volunteers on Kauai and Oahu are also testing the water, and a program proposed for testing in Hilo Bay could give people immediate warnings of polluted water. Best of all, Hawaii's location in the middle of the Pacific helps keep our nearshore water clean.
Bacteria in the ocean can make people with no open wounds sick in many ways: skin, eye, ear and staph infections, as well as gastrointestinal illnesses that lead to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and fever.
Wastewater that reaches beach waters is the biggest concern, says Watson Okubo, monitoring and analysis section supervisor for the state Department of Health's Clean Water Branch. That's what the branch's six inspectors constantly test for: indicators of human fecal contamination, such as bacterial indicators, nutrients and geochemical parameters such as pH, temperature and turbidity (the cloudiness of the water).
When nearshore waters have elevated levels of bacteria, the branch investigates the cause, which is not always immediately clear. Okubo cites Kahana Bay.
Wataru Kumagai takes water
samples at Magic Island, in Ala Moana Beach Park. The beach park is probably the busiest in Hawaii, so its water gets tested at least once a week by the Hawaii Department of Health's Clean Water Branch. Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting
"You would think that the high counts at the bay would be at the boat ramp and the restroom because of the cesspool, but, actually, the water's coming out of Kahana Stream from higher elevations. And it was feeding the whole bay. So it's very challenging to understand bacteria in recreational waters because it's not very simple," he says. "And that's why you really need to understand the venue, the location, the contributing factors, and other testing that was done later on in Kahana, which showed the high bacteria counts were not from humans."
MONITORING THE WATER
The Clean Water Branch uses two indicator bacteria to determine if a beach is contaminated with fecal matter: enterococci and clostridium perfringens. The two are found together, though a high level of one and a low level of the other doesn't indicate human fecal contamination, Okubo says. It's when both counts are high that a beach may be contaminated, and that's when the branch would do an initial survey and resample the next day. The inspectors and Okubo often have to make a judgment call while awaiting test results: Put up warning signs immediately or wait for the lab results. Because the branch receives funding from the EPA's Beach Act grant, it has to notify the public when recreational waters are not meeting or are not expected to meet applicable quality standards.
Sample sites that exceed water-quality standards half or more of the time could get permanent warning signs. At press time, Okubo said new caution signs created by the Clean Water Branch and Surfrider Foundation's Oahu chapter were being reviewed by stakeholders.
The two kinds of bacteria aren't foolproof clues of human waste. They can both be found in animals, and enterococci, the Environmental Protection Agency-approved indicator, can be found in soils, sediment and decaying matter. Ironically, bacteria from human waste is the most dangerous to humans.
Hawaii has 303 miles of recreational shoreline, according to the 2014 state Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, and the Clean Water Branch focuses on monitoring the nearshore waters: between the shore and 300 meters out. The mouths of streams are also monitored.
Samples are collected in knee-deep water, with 500 milliliter containers submerged about elbow depth. Measurements for the physical characteristics of the water, such as temperature, salinity, pH and turbidity, are also taken.
Okubo says the major costs of sampling water are equipment and manpower. Testing for enterococci can be done with a kit; however, it's much more complicated for clostridium. The water sample has to be filtered, placed in a petri dish with a gel that helps to isolate and identify clostridium in the water sample, and put in an anaerobic incubator, which will require a full lab to count the colonies of bacteria.
The state water-quality standards and adopted EPA standards say enterococci counts cannot exceed a geometric mean of 35 colony-forming units per 100 milliliters over any 30-day period, or a beach action value of 130 colony-forming units per 100 milliliters. For clostridium perfringens, the alert level is 50 colony-forming units per 100 milliliters.
The Clean Water Branch has 446 identified sites to test around the state, but has only six people to do the job. With no labs on Lanai and Molokai to immediately test samples, that leaves one person to test 104 sites on Hawaii Island, one to test 81 sites on Maui and one to test 73 sites on Kauai. The remaining three people test 145 sites on Oahu. EPA funding – $300,000 to $330,000 a year – can't cover all six positions, Okubo says, so most are funded by the state.
With so many sites to test, the Clean Water Branch categorizes beaches based on how likely they are to be contaminated by human fecal matter. Some beaches are tested once a week; others once a year.
High human use, a breakwater, a nearby stream and a nearby storm drain make for a tier-one, high-risk beach. "The more humans go, the higher the bacteria's going to be in the water," Okubo says. "There may be unknown sewage spills and the monitoring will pick that up."
Picture Ala Moana Beach Park during a three-day weekend. Thousands of people will be there, making for an adverse situation, Okubo says. "I know a lot of people don't look at it that way, but, from the health perspective, the more people recreating in one location, the health risk goes up because we're looking at human fecal contamination. … If you don't want to be at risk, then you go someplace not too many people go."
In addition, degree of dilution plays a role. Generally speaking, if there's no water movement and a lot of people are in the water, there's a bigger risk of exposure to sewage from bathers, especially if there are no bathrooms nearby, according to a 1999 World Health Organization report on health-based monitoring of recreational waters.
A JUMP IN BACTERIA LEVELS
In 2014, the state found high bacteria levels in Kahaluu Lagoon and the channel leading into Kaneohe Bay. There are an estimated 600 cesspools in the area, so leakage and runoff were suspected as the causes. The state is partnering with UH scientists to study the interaction between the groundwater and surface water to help identify where the contamination is coming from and where it's going.
An earlier study looked at the connection between cesspools and nearshore pollution. Working with the Coral Reef Alliance, UH Hilo marine science researchers Tracy Wiegner and Steven Colbert studied Puako on Hawaii Island, a community of about 160 homes that heavily relies on cesspools and septic tanks to dispose of sewage. Dye tracer studies found that sewage from cesspools could reach the seeps along the coast in as little as nine hours, or up to three or four days, meaning there's little time for any pathogens to be lost or nutrients to be removed from the wastewater.
"The shorter the travel time, the more similar it is to swimming in raw sewage," Colbert says. The travel time depends on how far the cesspool is from the shore and how big the cracks in the rocks are that allow water to flow, he adds. The cesspools in Puako were about 100 feet from the shore.
Wiegner says sewage in Puako ocean waters seem to be concentrated within 100 to 200 feet of the shore; however, there also seems to be evidence that wastewater will also discharge through seeps on the seafloor – which is where the team will now be concentrating further efforts to figure out how much sewage is coming up.
Currently, the Coral Reef Alliance and the Puako Community Association are looking at getting a private onsite treatment plant built, the best option according to a feasibility study.
A LACK OF TREATMENT
The problem with cesspools is they do not treat wastewater; they're unlined holding areas underground that allow untreated wastewater to percolate into the surrounding soil. Until March, Hawaii was the only state that still allowed new construction of small cesspools, meaning cesspools that serve less than 20 people. New small cesspools are now banned. Large-capacity cesspools were banned in 2000 (existing ones had to be upgraded or closed by April 2005). However, there are still 88,000 cesspools in the state, with almost half located on Hawaii Island. Of those, 6,900 are within 750 feet of a shoreline and have a greater potential to introduce harmful pollutants to the ocean than those farther inland, according to Hawaii's Nonpoint Source Management Plan for 2015-2020.
"Our populations are growing, so stopping that input of raw sewage to our shorelines is a very important step, but there's more that can be done," Colbert says.
While connecting residences using cesspools and other on-site disposal systems to wastewater treatment systems seems like a simple solution, Okubo says, there's not enough room to put a sewer line in every community. Sina Pruder, chief of the state's Wastewater Branch, says cost is also a challenge. It would take millions of dollars to install sewer infrastructures in the state's many rural areas, and sewer fees collected in these areas would not be enough to pay for construction and maintenance.
At the beginning of 2016, the Wastewater Branch started its tax-credit program for replacing cesspools located within 200 feet of a shoreline, perennial stream or wetland, or when the sewage takes less than two years to reach a public source of drinking water. However, Pruder says few people have used the credit of up to $10,000 for each qualified cesspool. This money covers a portion of the cost to upgrade to a septic tank or aerobic treatment unit. Pruder says the price will vary based on site conditions, but she estimates a septic tank would cost $8,000 to $20,000 and an aerobic treatment unit $20,000 to $30,000.
When upgrading to a new wastewater disposal system, a home's location is a factor in determining which system to pick. Those near the shore or a stream usually have high groundwater, Pruder says, so, if a homeowner were to put in a leach or drainage field, the Department of Health requires there be three feet separating the bottom of the field and the groundwater. The soil usually provides a natural treatment for the wastewater, so, if homeowners don't have that separation, they have to install an aerobic treatment unit that disinfects the wastewater, she says.
LEAKS AND SPILLS
Bacteria can also get into nearshore waters through leaks and spills from the sewer system. In 2015, the Clean Water Branch reported 19 sewage spills around the state, with 11 affecting coastal waters, but the spills didn't always reach the nearby beaches. Okubo says this is because spills dilute before reaching beaches.
Marvin Heskett, water-quality expert with Surfrider Foundation's Oahu chapter and senior chemist at Element Environmental LLC, says nonpoint source pollution is a big concern. Nonpoint source means the pollution originates from more than one location. During a storm, rainwater picks up pollutants as it makes its way down to the ocean.
He cites the area around Waikiki's Kapahulu groin as an example: "That's usually especially bad after long dry periods, and then you get your first initial storm and it's kind of flushing streets and neighborhoods clean, and all that material comes rushing down out of storm-drain pipes."
The Clean Water Branch also watches streams; however, no matter which stream is tested, enterococci counts are going to be high, Okubo says, because of sediment and soil. In addition, counts jump each time it rains, so Okubo began issuing brown-water advisories after he became supervisor of the branch's monitoring section in December 2003.
"I developed the brown-water advisory because of overflowing cesspools, unknown chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, dead animals being washed into the ocean," he says. "So, if the water's brown, stay out. Because you get all these leptospirosis issues coming up. People think, 'Oh, if you're in the salt water you don't have to worry about the leptospirosis.' It's not true, because it survives long enough in the coastal water where all the salinity is depressed."
In the 24 hours it takes to get bacteria test results back, beaches may or may not have warning signs based on the judgment of Okubo and his team. That's why Wiegner and Colbert are seeking funding for a pilot project that could inform people whether the beach water is safe in real time. Their model would be based on salinity and turbidity, which appear to be related to bacterial counts, and would be recorded by a buoy in Hilo Bay.
"If we have that established relationship between those two parameters, we could make calls for bacteria counts, at least predicted bacteria counts based on turbidity and salinity being measured in the water, based on the buoy," Wiegner says.
ALOHA FOR OUR WATER
Although there may be reports of high bacteria and brown water every once in a while, the quality of Hawaii's beach water is clean enough that the Surfrider Foundation's Heskett will go in as much as possible. In fact, Surfrider's Oahu and Kauai chapters are testing their islands' waters, focusing on areas that they feel don't get enough attention.
On Kauai, that means surf sites and streams. That's because Kauai has more waterfalls and rainfall than other islands, meaning bacteria, such as those from cesspools and animal waste, will travel down the streams and into the ocean, Surfrider Kauai chairman Carl Berg says. His chapter has been monitoring water quality for 10 years and has found that some streams are chronically polluted, such as Waiopili Stream and Nawiliwili Stream, which constantly have enterococci counts exceeding state standards.
1) UH Hilo summer interns and graduate students collect water quality and algae samples at Puako for a project documenting nearshore sewage pollution. The students are Devon Aguiar, Jazmine Panelo, Leilani Abaya, Bryan Tonga, and Belytza Velez-Gamez.
2) Leilani Abaya, a master's student at UH Hilo's graduate program in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science, filters water samples from Puako to determine concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria. These bacteria are used to assess whether the water is polluted with sewage.
3) Evelyn Braun, a UH Hilo summer intern with the Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science, measures water turbidity (cloudiness) at Waialea Beach, one of the stations for the Puako sewage project. Photos by Tracy Wiegner
Both the Kauai and Oahu chapters of the Surfrider Foundation only test for enterococci. According to Heskett, the secondary tracer, clostridium perfringens, is not tested because it requires an anaerobic chamber, which is outside the scope of Surfrider's equipment and volunteer effort.
However, the main takeaway is that, because the island is in the middle of the Pacific, Kauai's surf sites are generally clean. Berg says, "But, when you start getting water coming off the land, that's when it brings with it all sorts of garbage and bacteria and viruses that can make people sick, and that's why, at the bottom of our list in red, we have places like Hanamaulu Stream, Nawiliwili Stream, Waiopili Stream."
In addition to testing for enterococci, the Oahu Surfrider chapter is also concerned with other pollutants. It has a separate water quality monitoring program that will track four sites around the island for enterococci and clostridium and over 100 pollutants, says Matt Moore, chapter treasurer and water-quality specialist.
The program is funded by a $300,000 grant. The money arises out of a settlement after millions of gallons of storm water leaked from the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill into nearshore waters in 2011, Moore says. The program started over the summer and is expected to last two to three years. The test sites will include Nanakuli, Fort DeRussy, Sunset Beach and Castles in Kailua, and the frequency of testing will be based on brown-water events: the group wants to know the levels before, during and after storms.
"We're just trying to inform the public of what's in the water and bring to light some of the issues that have been around for a while without a lot of people knowing," Moore says.
Nevertheless, Hawaii's water quality is a lot better than places on the mainland, Okubo says, citing our location in the middle of the ocean, where currents and winds eventually clear everything away. But, we have to keep addressing the issues that arise.
"I was born in Hawaii, the water was good to me and my family," he says. "My grandfather was a fisherman, my father was a diver fisherman, I supplemented my income by fishing in my younger days, made good money. And so I have an aloha for the ocean. I don't want to screw it up. I want to do as much as I can. All these big issues that are coming up, hopefully I can put down the template for how we are going to do it, do the framework, so I can retire."
LEARN THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP PROTECT HAWAII'S WATER, AS TOLD BY AUSTIN KINO
This article appears in the January 2017 issue of Hawaii Business Magazine.
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